Wynns Black Label Old Vines Shiraz 2024

  • 95
  • $45
  • Drink by: 2026-2036

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A super season in Coonawarra has produced an outstanding example of this style. This is generous and intense, but delivers with that real Coonawarra elegance and poise that captures so much of the region and, in this case, a very good season. The colour is vibrant, with ready crimson tones. On the nose, you get a sort of ripe red fruit character which sits more in that cherry and pomegranate spectrum, sprinkled with a little pepperiness. The palate highlights Shiraz from a cooler climate, bursting with energy and life, with fine chalky tannins and well-managed oak, which is a combination of new and seasoned hogsheads and barriques, where it spent about 16 months. Supremely balanced and poised, with potential to cellar in the medium term. But this is such great drinking now.

Ray Jordan
Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.

Wine writing
Pilot
Ray Jordan
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Shiraz
Categories: Australian Wines, Drinks